Riot

Riot's History

The Riot Symbiote is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Carlton Drake) of the 2018 film Venom, which is based on the Marvel comic book character of the same name and the first installment of Sony's Spider-Man Universe.

He is the destructive and sadistic leader of the Symbiotes, who bonds with Carlton Drake in order to accomplish their shared goal of bringing his race to Earth to bond with humanity; although, unlike Drake, he does this in order to have the symbiotes destroy and devour the human race. This incarnation of Riot is also significantly stronger and more vicious than its original comics counterpart.

He was voiced by Riz Ahmed, who also played Drake in the same film.

Riot was one of the four Symbiotes that was transported inside a comet from their planet to Earth. While the first three Symbiotes were captured by Carlton Drake and his men to perform illegal experiments on human hosts, Riot was the only one to escape, landing in Malaysia. For six months, Riot made all his way from Malaysia to the U.S. by hopping from one host body to another. Taking a little girl as its current host, Riot made his way to Life Foundation HQ, where he learns of Drake's intent to use a rocket into delivering more symbiotes. Knowing that doing so might lead the Symbiotes to use Earth as a feeding ground, Riot forms a deal with Drake to help him out before bonding with him.

However, Eddie Brock refuses to let this happen, even the Venom symbiote agreed to help him out as he states that Riot happens to be the 'team leader' that has 's**t you've never seen' and must be taken down. To that end, Brock re-bonds with Venom, who heads off to confront Riot at the launch platform. Riot demanded Venom to join him by ordering him to get into the rocket, but Venom refuses, prompting an angry Riot to declare that he will kill him for this. A battle between the symbiotes ensued, with Riot gaining the upper hand on Venom. However, Anne Weying uses a high-pitch sound to briefly weaken both symbiotes, but Riot stands his grounds before stabbing Brock and leaving him for dead. Fortunately, Venom saves Brock's life by bonding with him again as Riot boards the rocket.

Just as rocket is about to take off, Venom manages to soar into the hull. Upon witnessing this, Riot angrily calls Venom a traitor, but Venom mockingly tells Riot to have a nice life before falling (an ironic echo to what Drake said to Eddie earlier in the movie). Using Riot's weapon (his arm blade) when he stabbed him earlier (which he pulled out after Venom saved Eddie), he creates a large puncture to the rocket's hull to ensure that the rocket won't reach space, causing the fuel to spill out. As Riot sees the fuel leaking out, he wasn't able to stand his grounds as the leaked fuel contacts the burning but still hot engines of the rocket, causing the fuel to combust, and the resulting fire to combust the leaking fuel in the punctured fuel tanks, rupturing them, and in the process causing the rocket's hull to rip open. The resulting explosion destroys the rocket, which also destroys the rocket's engines. Riot is ignited first as he screams in painful agony while Drake is incinerated in the explosion.